Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261383AbVATTvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:51:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbVATTve (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:51:34 -0500 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:41416 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261383AbVATTvd (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:51:33 -0500 Subject: LVM2 From: "Trever L. Adams" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:51:27 -0700 Message-Id: <1106250687.3413.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 (2.0.3-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 22 I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in Linus's kernel) handle? I am talking with various people and we are looking at Samba on Linux to do several different namespaces (obviously one tree), most averaging about 3 terabytes, but one would have in excess of 20 terabytes. We are looking at using 320 to 500 gigabyte drives in these arrays. (How? IEEE-1394. Which brings a question I will ask in a second email.) Is RAID 5 all that bad using this software method? Is RAID 5 available? Trever Adams -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/